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    Bowie Book Club Podcast

    Two friends have had a book club for a very very long time. It was mostly an excuse to drink and gossip. In January of 2016, they found renewed purpose in their sadness over the death of David Bowie. They decided to stop mucking around and actually get some reading done – from the list of books that he loved.

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    The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard Jul 18, 2022
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    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard - a play where a lot happens just off stage and there's a lot of talking about thinking.

    In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan Jun 20, 2022
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    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read In Between the Sheets, a kind-of-sort-of creepy book of short stories by Ian McEwan.

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    Visit our lists on bookshop.org and help support the podcast (and independent bookstores too!)

    Stuff We Talked About

    • NY Times review of In Between the Sheets - spoiler: didn't like.
    • The Czar of Love and Techno by Anthony Marra
    • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
    • The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor
    • LA Weekly article on Bowie in L.A.
    • Pushing ahead of the Dame on Scary Monsters

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Brain Bats from Venus by Greg Sadowski
    • Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel
    • The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler

    Kristianne:

    • Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
    • The Heroine with 1000 Faces by Maria Tatar
    • How to Be Eaten by Maria Adelman

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard
    Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes May 30, 2022
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    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a book of literary criticism/history about Gustave Flaubert that (suprise!) turns out to be a novel that's not really about a bird at all (or is it?) - Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes

    Money by Martin Amis Apr 25, 2022
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    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Money by Martin Amis - the literary equivalent of watching someone fall down thousands of flights of stairs and wondering why you're laughing so hard.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Steve Martin interviews Martin Amis

    • Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim

    • NYT review of Money that coins the phrase "The New Unpleasantness"

    • Germaine Greer interview with Amis

    • Our episodes on connected books: Vile Bodies, Day of the Locust and (maybe?) Bicameral Mind

    • Martin Amis' review of Bowie in 1973

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Maybe the People Would be the Times by Lucy Sante
    • LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin
    • Downtown by Pete Hamill
    • Secret Identity by Alex Segura

    Kristianne: *Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (progress... it'll be awhile...)

    • Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
    Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom by Nik Cohn Mar 21, 2022
    Show notes The Bowie Book Club Podcast - Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom The Bowie Book Club Podcast Download

    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Awopbopaloobopalopbamboom (or something like that) a intensely jaded look at the first couple decades of rock music from legendary writer Nik Cohn.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Our episode on Teenage by Jon Savage

    • Arfur by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Tommy, and super expensive)

    • I Am The Still the Greatest, Says Johnny Angelo by Nik Cohn (an inspiration for Ziggy Stardust?)

    • Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night (the inspiration for Saturday Night Fever - and somewhat made up)

    • Rock Dreams by Nik Cohn and Guy Peellaert

    • Nik Cohn is nice to Bowie - and mean to the Rolling Stones

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • Devil House by John Darnielle
    • Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman
    • The Dawn of Everything by Davids Graeber and Wengrow

    Kristianne

    • Build Your House Around My Body by Violet Kupersmith
    • The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
    • Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    Money - Martin Amis

    The Iliad by Homer Feb 28, 2022
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    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read Homer Tarantino's gory classic of bromanticism - The Iliad

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • We read different translations of this here gruesome volume - Kristianne had the Robert Fagles and Greg read the Carolyn Alexander

    • Want to understand the Iliad? This is the only infographic you need

    • The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker

    • The War that Killed Achilles by Carolyn Alexander

    • Homer's Daughter by Robert Graves

    • A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes

    • The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson

    • Our ridiculous episode about The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes

    • Shakespeare's Second Best Bet

    • The Myths and Legends Podcast

    • Christa Wolf's book on Cassandra that we should've read!

    What Are We Reading? (That Isn't Related to the Iliad)

    Greg:

    • Devil House by John Darnielle (also Wolf in White Van and Universal Harvester)

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn

    Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders Jan 24, 2022
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    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read a series of connected stories circling the post-beat, pre-hippie world of Lower Mahattan in Tales Of Beatnik Glory by Ed Saunders. Join us for a hour or two at the Total Assault Cantina!

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Peace Eye Bookstore
    • Herb Caen
    • Resistance: A Radical Social and Political History of the Lower East Side
    • Our episode on Peking Story
    • Our episode on Kafka was the Rage
    • The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (Greg cannot resist the opportunity to plug this book)

    What Are We Reading?

    Greg:

    • A Year With Swollen Appendanges by Brian Eno
    • The Unfortunates by B.S. Johnson

    Kristianne:

    • Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
    • The Ginger Tree by Oswald Wynd
    • Hell of A Book by Jason Mott

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • The Iliad - Homer, but not THAT Homer
    Our 2022 Books Jan 10, 2022
    Show notes Bowie Book Club Podcast - Our 2022 Books Bowie Book Club Podcast Download

    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016.

    We survived another year, and that means we get to dust off the ole Choosenator and see what new books it brings us. This time we had a little canine assistance - our trusty guide led us through the wilds of Seattle (ok, through quiet residential neighborhoods) and pointed us at the correct numbers for the books for 2022!

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    Our 2022 Books

    • The Iliad - Homer Simpson
    • Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom: The Golden Age of Rock - Nik Cohn
    • Money - Martin Amis
    • Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
    • In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan
    • Coast of Utopia - Tom Stoppard
    • The Leopard - Giusseppe Di Lampedusa
    • Room at the Top - John Braine
    • On the Road - Jacky Kerouac
    • In Bluebeard's Castle - George Steiner
    • Mr. Wilson's Cabinet O' Wonders - Lawrence Weschler
    • A People's Tragedy - Orlando Figes

    Our 2021 Favorites

    Kristianne:

    • The Enchanted
    • Tale for the Time Being
    • The Anthropocene Review and The Book of Delights
    • Piranesi

    Greg:

    • A Little Devil in America
    • Gormenghast
    • Tadanori Yokoo
    • Piranesi
    • The Dakota Winters and The Perfume Burned His Eyes

    Other Stuff

    Kristanne listened to House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door while walking her dog.

    Greg couldn't remember that Sir Derek Jacobi read the audio version of Hawksmoor - here's our episode about that book

    Buy records and books from Hex Enduction Records and Books in Lake City, Seattle. Even if you're not in Seattle, they have a giant Discogs page - they're good folks with good stuff!

    Coming Up

    We'll start things off next month with a relatively new, very modern tome - The Iliad. See y'all then!

    1984 by George Orwell Dec 20, 2021
    Show notes

    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read George Orwell's classic work of numerology, 1984.

    The Quest for Christa T Nov 22, 2021
    Show notes Bowie Book Club Podcast - The Quest for Christa T by Christa Wolf The Bowie Book Club Podcast Download

    Welcome to another episode of the Bowie Book Club, where wild speculation and grasping for straws about Bowie’s favorite books has reigned supreme since 2016. This time we read * The Quest For Christa T by Christa Wolf, a melancholy elegy that really got on the wrong side of the East German censors, for some reason.

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    Stuff We Talked About

    • Christa Wolf's first book Divided Heaven

    • Mister T

    What Are We Reading?

    Kristianne:

    • The Enchanted by Rene Denfield
    • The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
    • Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

    Greg:

    • The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
    • Anno Dracula by Kim Newman
    • All the Marvels by Douglas Wolk

    What Song Did We Choose?

    What's Up Next

    • 1984
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